Backward compatible is not necessary, but when you’re talking about a video game console accessory that costs hundreds of dollars, it’s always going to be a hard sell. People have been told “VR is the next big thing” for the last decade and so far we haven’t seen anything that you cannot miss. So anything that makes…

I’m just never going to install an app to get food, particularly low quality food.  A $2 cheeseburger is a relative bargain for McDonalds to get access to all the data they can harvest via the app.

I mean, Knives Out is a movie that succeeds largely on the strength of its writing.  TFA is a movie that succeeds largely on the basis of people’s nostalgia for Star Wars.  Writing a mystery that works is much harder than “do Star Wars stuff.” 

I mean, Italians have come up with some novel ways to cook pasta on their own. Like Spaghetti all’Assassina is cooked in a skillet shallow enough to just submerge the noodles.

They stop pooping when they’re dead, it’s both sides of the “pooping” equation you’re concerned about. Usually when Ozzy gets a mouse, he just leaves a pile of viscera and maybe a detached leg and probably the tail in one spot. It’s a quick cleanup with a paper towel.

Really “Dragonlike” is right there.

I find myself living in a world with far more milks than I actually need or want.

My suspicion is that it’s about both tears and tears (specific to one Kingdom).  These aren't fully voiced, so you can use text-based ambiguity.

William Zabka’s ability to walk the tightrope of “Playing a guy who absolutely sucks” and “despite yourself, you kind of want to root for him” has been the single best thing about the entire series.

While I’m sure the fake meat alternative is fine, I’m personally of the opinion that the Panda Express Orange Chicken is already ruined by virtue of it being way too sweet.

The appeal of Assassin’s Creed has never been the modern metaplot, the appeal of Assassin’s Creed has been “we pick interesting periods in history and turn them into a theme park for you to mess around in.”   Nothing else really matters- the controls have always been pretty bad. They could drop the Abstergo stuff…

I mean, a big part of why Assassin’s Creed works but Watch_Dogs and the Division kind of didn’t is the aesthetic appeal of being a tourist in an interesting time and place in history.  That’s not really a phenomenon that can be abstracted into something you can repeat in a series of games with a different premise.

Black Flag is the one to start with.  It’s a refined formula, it’s fun, it requires basically no knowledge of the setting or the metaplot, and you get to be a pirate.  The main criticism of the game is “it doesn’t have much to do with the rest of the franchise.”

I played all the ones that were on the 360 (so 1 through Rogue) and I picked up the ancient ones (Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla), are Syndicate and Unity worth it?  I sort of get the sense that the reason Origins was such a breath of fresh air was that the franchise needed to change some things.

The fact that the well-publicized MJF contract issues became part of the storyline makes me wonder whether part of this is a work. AEW does have TV contracts coming up and nothing’s going to juice ratings like “the backstage beef is so hot, people are throwing chairs and EVPs are getting suspended.”

I mean, ultimately the way this gets done is “Microsoft agrees to continue releasing games they publish on Sony platforms if Sony releases games they publish on Microsoft platforms”.

I guess “Kiwifarms as Russian state media” makes a certain kind of sense.

It feels like the point of hiring sensitivity readers is that they keep you from publishing stuff like this so you never need to retract it.  If you're actually printing the stuff that makes you embarrassed perhaps you need to hire more sensitivity readers or just replace your editors.

I just read "PC exclusive" as meaning "we have no idea how to make this work with a controller."  Something that needs 2 dozen hotkeys available, for example.

I’m going to tinker with your flatbread pizza sauce recipe. I’m going to remove the bay leaf after simmering before blending. Nobody wants to eat bay leaves, no matter how small you chop them up.